Here are fun, helpful classroom tools. Feel free to edit/improve
existing documents and/or add new classroom tools to the
documents on this page. Click "discussion" to comment about
tools, games, or videos you have tried and improved, or new ideas you have added. Please also share any useful teacher resources that you use. :-)
Free Kibble http://www.freekibble.com/ Right or wrong, you win! Click on an answer, and every day you do, we'll provide 10 pieces of kibble to Animal Shelters to help feed their hungry dogs. Play Bow-WowTrivia every day - the more you play, the more kibble for the dogs!
Fun, interactive website with challenging questions for kids plus lots of help for abandoned animals -- similar to the FoodForce. "Right or wrong, you win! Click on an answer, and every day you do, we'll provide 10 pieces of kibble to Animal Shelters to help feed their hungry dogs" at http://www.bing.com/search?q=kibble+for+pets&FORM=MYMSNA
www.math-drills.com and math.com. Math-drills has a lot of practice for all levels of math and even has fun holiday worksheets in PDF format. Math.com is repleat with information. It has lesson plans, dynamic worksheet builders, TONS of helps for teachers, students, and parents. It is one of the ones that I put on my syllabus for help. The other one is purplemath.com. Purplemath.com has great examples and practice problems for kids and parents. It has a searchable website which makes it easy to find topics.
Standards Toolbox for Teachers http://www.standardstoolbox.com/ -- You can locate your state's standards, generate lessons, use a test item generator or online gradebook, access teaching resources (all kinds of graphic organizers, for example), even make a free teacher website . . . .
*Edhelper is a fabulous resource to help teachers with graphic organizers, lessons, monthly themes, content area help such as math puzzles and a host of other wonderful classroom ideas = http://www.edhelper.com/
http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm Teacher Files (wonderful free website for teacher educational clipart including word art generator, subject area titles, place value, times and clocks, 2D and 3D shapes, and so much more. You'll love it!
www.easybib.com - a works cited generator -- free for MLA citation and a small fee for APA, Turabian, and Chicago Manual of Style. Great assortment of citation types, will create multiple citations then export to Word doc or view online.
High school, middle school and elementary lesson plans online. With ideas for great children's activities and classroom management advice.Go to http://www.teachervision.fen.com/ (offers free access and includes a subscription with a wealth of incredible teacher ideas and practical unit/lesson plans, classroom docs, etc.
Microsoft Innovative Teacher Network -- http://www.microsoft.com/education/pil/IT_network.aspx Check it out! Lots of great ideas to use in the classroom such as Photosynth (Show your students a 360-degree representation of the Grand Canyon or Stonehenge with this photo tool.) or teacher guide "Free Tools and Ideas for the Classroom" plus a rich assortment of excellent lesson plan ideas -- http://www.microsoft.com/education/lessonplans.mspx .
Web Developer's Handbook at http://www.alvit.de/handbook/ super resource for tips, suggestions, apps, cool software you can use to develop a great website
An online timer stopwatch lets Internet users time a test, class, meeting, speech, contest, auction, experiment, phone call, game, etc. Go to http://www.timeme.com/timer-stopwatch.htm -- Super!
A great website for maps, organized by current interests and in other ways. Includes historical maps and links to other websites about maps - http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps
Here are fun, helpful classroom tools. Feel free to edit/improve
existing documents and/or add new classroom tools to the
documents on this page. Click "discussion" to comment about
tools, games, or videos you have tried and improved, or new ideas you have added. Please also share any useful teacher resources that you use. :-)
Jeopardy PowerPoint-- plus
subject area Jeopardy games -- teacher contributions (many subject areas)
http://www.diigo.com
http://oslis.org
http://www.learningfromlyrics.org/
Cool site for art inspiration!! Check it out!!
Excellent site to connect students with geography and history.
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/topic_t_2.html
Useful class wiki links:
http://techeducators2010.wikispaces.com/ -- Home Page http://techeducators2010.wikispaces.com/Instructional+Materials -- Instructional Materials http://techeducators2010.wikispaces.com/Student+WebQuest+Wikispaces+Links -- Student Webquests http://techeducators2010.wikispaces.com/Teacher+Classroom+Resources -- Teacher Resources http://techeducators2010.wikispaces.com/Teacher+Toolkit -- TeacherToolkit http://techeducators2010.wikispaces.com/web+2.0+interactive+tools -- Web 2.0 Interactive Tools